2 Responses to e4 – Workbench (Model) Tooling

As I mentioned over at Lar’s blog, this looks really cool. What I’m wondering is how usable the e4 setup is now with a 3.5 app? Like, is it reasonable to try to run a complex Eclipse application under e4 right now and if so how hard is that to setup?

With the compat layer you can run your 3.x-App without any modifications ontop of e4. The compat layer is in fact “simply” translating your View, Perspective, … contributions into our EMF-Domain-Model objects calling e4-API replacements of the 3.x API. This means an 3.x application running ontop of e4 can be introspected with the Workbench Model Tooling as well.